Leaders, thinkers and doers: Here are the notable Utahns who died in 2023

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(Alder family) Douglas Alder, a Latter-day Saint historian and former president of what is now Utah Tech University, in an undated photograph.

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Lavina Fielding Anderson, who was excommunicated in 1993 as part of the so-called September Six, has had her request for rebaptism into the LDS Church rejected by the faiths governing First Presidency after being approved by her local lay leaders. Anderson was photographed at her Salt Lake City home on Wednesday Sept. 4, 2019.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dr. Richard Anderson cheering on the Utah Jazz, facing the San Antonio Spurs in game four of the Western Conference Finals in Salt Lake City on May 28, 2007.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) M. Russell Ballard, president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is honored at the Capitol, Thursday, July 22, 2021. Gov. Spencer Cox declared the day President M. Russell Ballard Day in Utah.

(Photo courtesy of Darlene McDonald) Darlene McDonald and Gail Blattenberger at the 2023 Healing Conversations Conference
Toward Bridging Social and Political Division at Utah Valley University on March 30, 2023.

(Christian Palma | AP) Hoonigan Racing Division driver Ken Block, right, signs autographs at the end of the Mexico Rally in Leon, Mexico, Sunday, March 10, 2013.

FILE -Former land speed record holder Craig Breedlove reaches for his helmet prior to making his first test run in his car

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Triathlete Kyle Brown gets ready for a bike ride at his home in Fruit Heights on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.

(Bush family) Lester Bush, a physician and Latter-day Saint historian, in an undated photograph.

(NASA) Astronaut Mary Cleave, a University of Utah alumna who flew on the space shuttle Atlantis in 1985 and 1989, died Nov. 27, 2023, at age 76, NASA reported.

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Dean Collett, a guidance counselor at Highland High School, greets students in 2016.

Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune
Tracy Aviary's condor Andy celebrated his 56th birthday, complete with cake and presents that he

(Courtesy of Jon Hoover) The late Steve Cramblitt, left, who won state championships in baseball at Taylorsville and Juan Diego high schools, in a photo with Jon Hoover, former baseball coach at Pleasant Grove and Cottonwood.

(Kevin Powell) Maria Boone Cranor, a climbing pioneer who was integral to the success of Black Diamond Equipment and later got a degree in physics from the University of Utah, died on Jan. 15, 2023 at the age of 76.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) President Henry B. Eyring and his wife, Sister Kathleen Eyring, arrive Saturday morning for the second day of the dedication of the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple in 2009 in South Jordan

(Gaddie family) Bob Gaddie poses for a portrait in this undated photo.

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Kyle Gallagher celebrates a stop near the goal line, for the Aggies, in WAC football action Utah State vs. Fresno State, in Logan, Saturday, September 18, 2010. Gallagher died April 22, 2023, ag age 33, after a car crash.

(Utah State Courts) Judge Regnal W. Garff Jr. served 34 years in the Utah court system — as the first juvenile court judge in the state, and as a founding member of the Utah Court of Appeals. Garff died Feb. 25, 2023, at age 95.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) John Genna, the vice president of communications and public relations at Real Salt Lake is recognized at halftime on the field during the Real Salt Lake game on May 31, 2023.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Mary Crandall Hales, wife of apostle Robert D. Hales, died Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Heather Brooke Hamilton — who wrote books and her popular blog Dooce under her married name, Heather Armstrong — pictured here in 2019. Hamilton died May 9, 2023, at age 47, by suicide, in Salt Lake City.

(Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune) Stacy Hanson gets a welcome home kiss from his dog Popeye following work Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009. Stacy was shot and injured in the 2007 Trolley Square shooting.

(Karsten Delap) Park City ski patroller Christian Helger, 29, was killed Monday on The Canyons side of Park City Mountain Resort when he fell off his chair on the chairlift after a tree hit the cable. Helger, pictured here on a ski trip at Mount Rainier, was remembered by friends as an avid outdoorsman with a

(Courtesy) Al Hendricks worked at 10 different national parks and monuments, including two of Utah’s five.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Patricia T. Holland, shown in April 2022, died Thursday, July 20, 2023.

(Michael Evans | Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum, via Wikimedia Commons) The portrait of Ann Dore McLaughlin during the Reagan administration.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kent Maxwell, director of the Utah Film & Video Center, in 2002.

(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) Peg McEntee in 2012.

(Mikita family) Steve Mikita, who was an assistant Utah attorney general for 39 years and a champion for the rights of people with disabilities, died March 1, 2023, at age 67.

In this photo provided by Kathy Hutchins, Richard Moll arrives at the 2010 TV Land Awards Sony Studios Culver City, Calif., April 17, 2010. Moll, a character actor who found lasting fame as an eccentric but gentle giant bailiff on the original “Night Court” sitcom, has died at age 80. Moll died Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, at his home in Big Bear Lake, Calif., according to a Jeff Sanderson, a family spokesperson. (Kathy Hutchins/Hutchins Photo via AP)

(University of Utah) John A. Moran, the finance executive and philanthropist whose fortune and advocacy launched the Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah. Moran died on Sept. 23, 2023, at age 91, the university announced.

(Craig Hansell | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jeremy Nobis in Park City, January 1991.

(Al Hartmann | Salt Lake Tribune) KSL anchor Dick Nourse in 2007.

In this photo provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, former U.S. Navy coxswain Howard

(Utah's Hogle Zoo) Priya, a 5-year-old female red panda who had lived at Utah's Hogle Zoo since 2022, died on Nov. 28, 2023, the zoo reported.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) LeeAnn Redmond photographed in 2007. Redmond had, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the longest fingernails in the world.

(Parsons, Behle and Latimer) Ronald Rencher, a former Democratic state lawmaker who served as speaker of the Utah House of Representatives from 1975-1976, died on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023.

Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Black-footed cat Amari, gets a quick cleaning by his mother Sanura, the oldest black-footed cat to give birth, surpassing her own record set last year in their enclosure at Hogle Zoo, Thursday, August 9, 2018. Amari was born May 18, 2018.

(Portia Snow | 15 Bytes) Tony Smith, painter and longtime art professor at the University of Utah, died Nov. 23, 2023, at age 84, friends reported.

(KTVX Channel 4) Veteran photojournalist Tracy Smith died of injuries he suffered while on assignment.

(Lennie Mahler | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rupert Steele, chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Indian Reservation, speaks during the opening plenary at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions held inside the Salt Palace Convention Center on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, in Salt Lake City.

FILE - Adobe co-founder John Warnock smiles in the lobby at Adobe headquarters in San Jose, Calif., on May 9, 2001. Warnock, the inventor of the PDF and Adobe Systems co-founder died Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, the software company said. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Chris Frawley/The CW) Vivien Cardone and Treat Williams at the “Everwood” reunion.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Joan Woodbury, one of the founders of the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, photographed in 2009.

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